Software Engineer, IR Data Products
Core
Build and operate production pipelines that ingest raw infrared frames from satellites, calibrate, geolocate, orthorectify them into map-projected tiles, and derive fire detections/perimeters for wildfire response agencies.
Role type
Senior IC software engineer (data processing pipelines)
Builds
Calibrated, orthorectified, analysis-ready infrared imagery products and fire detection outputs
Domain
Remote sensing / Satellite imagery / Wildfire monitoring
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Python, cloud infrastructure (AWS), containerized deployment, data pipeline development, performance profiling, workflow orchestration, code review, testing practices
Preferred skills
Geospatial data tooling (XArray, COG, GeoTIFF, NetCDF, GDAL, Zarr), workflow orchestration systems (Flyte, Airflow), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), satellite/remote sensing imagery pipelines, on-call operations
Technologies
Python, AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, Terraform, Flyte, Airflow, XArray, COG, GeoTIFF, NetCDF, GDAL, Zarr
Responsibilities
Build, test, and maintain production data processing pipelines for infrared imagery; Improve pipeline performance against latency targets via profiling and parallelization; Implement and operate workflow orchestration for continuous automated processing; Build monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling; Work with remote sensing scientists to translate algorithms into production-ready code; Diagnose and fix data quality and processing failures
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
